wildginger @ wildginger @lemmy.myserv.one

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You sound insanely intitled, so its very funny having you throw that around

Exclusives are not paying publishers to remove games from platforms. Those are two completely different things.

If you do not understand that simple fact, you probably shouldnt be wading into this discussion.

You really are not listening. You are going off on old grudges that have literally nothing to do with what I am saying to you.

I get it. Steam kicked your childhood dog. That has nothing to do with epic buying a game out of peoples mouths.

The scam was likely on the investors who funded the game for 5 years.

It was only sold, presumably, so they couldnt be taken to court for failing to deliver. Technically they did publish. It was just a flop

English ivy is horridly invasive in most places it lands in.

Invasive is regional, of course, so check online with local botanical resources. But unless youre in its native range, its probably invasive.

It tends to only flower when it climbs, and birds eating the berries is the genuine worst way for it to spread, so a lot of places keep it as ground cover because it grows so damn well. But it always escapes eventually.

Digital degrades faster than physical, and if youre trying to preserve things you do not want to be leaving it in a digital rental storage.

Especially files that you license, not technically actually own, like almost all digital games.

The free games system isnt anti consumer. And the exclusives are an industry standard, that steam also is involved in.

You have a laundry list of actual hostile practices, why did you pick the two that arent?

It kinda sounds like you dont either, tho

You sound like you dont understand what linux, or windows for that matter, even is. As if you just hear the name a lot online, and think its like a form of digital diet.

This is like teaching a child responsible drinking by giving him a handle of vodka a month at 12.

No, not exclusivity. Pointedly spending large amounts of money to take already purchased games away from people.

Exclusivity isnt a new concept. Im still patiently waiting for the next horizon game to come to PC at all. Exclucivity isnt kicking your customers in the teeth.

Wagging your fortnite cash in peoples faces by showing them you can take away what they already paid for is the kick in the teeth.

And, more importantly, it showed me how they value me. They will spend extra money to directly inconvenience me in the hopes Im stupid enough to pay them for inconveniencing me. Bad launcher? Thats fine, blizzards launcher is dogshit and I played overwatch for years. Exclusivity again, fine. Ill wait if Im really going to be stubborn, and I wont if I really want the game.

But going out of their way to antagonize other users of the competition, as if Im supposed to find that cute and rebuy what I already purchased at a store I already chose? Zero respect for your customers means you will do the same or worse to me even if I am stupid enough to pay you, if you think antagonizing me again will wiggle out more of my money.

Fuck them forever, they cannot rebuild that trust. The only reason they havent done it again is because steam changed their tos. And they will do it to you as soon as they think theyve got a stable userbase

Ok, but thats still also not about steam. Steam is a store, but they dont make much product. Game devs do that.

Game devs are the ones no longer making physical copies of their games. We should be pushing for the producers of games to be offering these.

..... Because years later, steam got good.

Epic started out shit, and then used their fortnite money to impro... No, wait, sorry, they used their fortnite money to buy exclusivity of games people had already preordered from other stores.

Starting out shit and then slowly improving is one thing. Starting out shit and then kicking your customers in the teeth is completely different.

Well, hold on. Why shouldnt we rely on pirates for preservation?

Valve is the only major PC game store that isnt public. Possibly the only PC store period, tho I dont know that for a fact for the smaller distributors. The private nature is why they currently operate as the best option for users, and the odds of the other stores going private is basically zero. So when valve shifts winds, they will be the end of an era.

Do you expect us to be able to request or rely on public companies to ever do better for game preservation and user to user trade than a private company does? You already arent pleased with valves stance, and there is no indication anyone will ever do better than them.

Who else would ever do better? Pirates are the best option.

Wow. Ive never heard someone say something positive about battle net

See, now this is a real use for these programs. Finding patterns in DNA and RNA to help isolate genes within a genome seems like exactly the kind if thing this tech excels at in a way that doesnt fuck over most people involved.

Good god thats so much better

Are those tunnels to ireland?

Under the water?

Are people not sketched out by that? That sounds terrifying

Pffft, if you think the way the american gov measures the unemployment stat is very good, its maybe not me with the atypical experience. Hard to take you seriously with a statement like that, good lord

Is the condescention really necessary bud? I dont think anyone asked for it